Checking on Bf 109G-5 detail

I think I've got this right, but the windscreens in the Hasegawa kit have me a bit confused. I'm doing a G-5 which from drawings on the 109 Lair and the photo below of Barkhorn's G-5 show no air inlet on the starboard side of the cowl. I think there should be one on the port side however. The Hasegawa kit I have (1/48 scale) provides two windscreens, one with air inlets on both sides, and the other with an air inlet on the starboard side with the port blanked off. The instructions say to use that one for the G-5, but I think they have the inlets backward. I think I should use the one with both inlets and remove the one on the starboard side. Is that correct?

Barkhorn's WNr.15909 is a G-6, not G-5

August 3 2010, 9:18 PM

Your photo is from a sequence in the Bundesarchiv, and shows Barkhorn's WNr.15909 in the spring of 1944, a 'stock' Bf 109G-6. One of Hermann Graf's white-tailed machines from the JGr.50 was only ten later off the line: WNr.15919.

Thank you for the correction - but how many vents on G-5 cowl?

OK - I think I've got it

August 3 2010, 11:24 PM

Checked the line drawings again. G-5 One cockpit air inlet, starboard side. G-6, Two cockpit air inlets. The plane I'm doing I am pretty sure is a G-5 (W.Nr. 110089) flown by Gunther Rall in Spring of 1944 when he was shot down by members of Zemke's Wolfpack.

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